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The main ways that people can corrupt science - or at least try to - are through hoax and fraud, both of which may be perpetrated by laymen or scientists, and through ideological and political corruption, whose intent in both instances is to mislead the public and both of which may be either deliberate or self-deceiving.In this sequel to John Grant's highly successful "Discarded Science - Ideas That Seemed Good at the Time", we are introduced to the world of fraud and deception rather than the gentler realms of mistake and ignorance. As ever, Grant is entertaining but the theme is serious and timely.Written by an expert for everyone interested in the history of scientific thinking and the evolution of ideas and theories which affect all of us, it was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stand out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, and Bush's America. "At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that" - John Grant, 2007.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: HOAXES AND FRAUDCreatures of InventionPeople Who Never WereMore than Three AlternativesDefrauding ScientistsScientists DefraudingMarvelous InventionsMiracle CuresPART TWO: THE CORRUPTION OF SCIENCEReligious CorruptionPolitical and Ideological CorruptionBibliographyIndexFaked animals, from mermaids and dragons on through the fabulous inventions of travellers' tales, and their influence on map-making...Palaeontological hoaxes, from Piltdown Man and the Cardiff Giant ... Faked evidence for Bigfoot and his ilk. Faked footage of humanoid aliens, such as the supposed Roswelldissection...The Great Moon Hoax of the 19th century, in which the New York Sun persuaded a nation the Moon was populated by civilized beings, whom astronomers had observed... The Anglia TV "documentary" Alternative Three, describing how the world's scientists were being spirited away to the far side of the Moon, which began as a spoof but became a hoax because people were all too eager to believe it.A panoply of scientific greats (including Ptolemy, Galileo, John Dalton, Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton) fake their results... Reiner Protsch's fraudulent dating of fossil humans...Shinichi Fujimura's astonishing diversity of "fossil finds" that seemed to rewrite Japan's racial history...Bogus perpetual-motion and energy-free machines used to bilk investors...Miracle cures for cancer...Franz Mesmer: the quack who got it right...Copernicus, Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church's influence on cosmology...Christian Fundamentalism's war against evolution...Racist pseudoscience - two words that encompass much...The Nazis and promotion ofpseudosciences like the World Ice Theory in an attempt to suppress "Jew Science" (e.g., Einstein's work)... Stalinism and the promotion of, particularly, Lysenkoist pseudogenetics in order to suppress bad news about Soviet agriculture...

About the Author :
Award-winning author of many non-fiction books on film, art and fantasy, and of some 20 fantasy novels, Scottish-born John Grant lives in New Jersey, USA. He is an expert on film and animation, and is author of numerous books in that field including Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters (three editions), Masters of Animation and three titles in the Facts, Figures & Fun series: Sci-Fi Movies, Animated Movies and Noir Movies. He was co-editor of the award-winning The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and co-author of AAPPL's award-winning The Chesley Awards: A Retrospective.He has won the Hugo Award (twice), the World Fantasy Award, the Mythopoeic Society Scholarship Award, the J. Lloyd Eaton Scholarship Award, the Locus Award, the Chesley Award, and a British Science Fiction Association Special Award.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781904332732
  • Publisher: Aappl Artists & Photographers Press Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Facts, Figures and Fun, an imprint of AAPPL Artists' and Photographers' Press Ltd
  • Height: 184 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Sub Title: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science
  • Width: 114 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1904332730
  • Publisher Date: 18 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 549 gr


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